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raproduction,  or  which  may  sigi^ificantly  changa 
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Couvartura  andommagia 


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une  image  reproduite,  ou  qui  peuvent  exiger  une 
modification  dana  la  mAthoda  normale  de  fllmage 
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ensure  the  best  pocsible  image/ 
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obscurcies  par  un  feuillet  d'errata.  une  pelure, 
etc.,  ont  6t6  fiimies  A  nouveau  de  fa9on  A 
obtenir  la  meilleure  image  possible. 


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possible  considering  the  condition  and  legibility 
of  the  original  copy  and  in  keeping  with  the 
filming  contract  specifications. 


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beginning  with  the  front  cover  and  ending  on 
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sion, or  the  back  cover  when  appropriate.  AH 
other  original  copies  are  filmed  beginning  on  the 
first  page  with  a  printed  or  illustrated  impres- 
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shall  ccntnin  the  symbol  —►(meaning  "COI\(- 
TINUED  '),  or  the  symbol  V  (meaning  "END"), 
whichever  rppiies. 

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plus  grand  soin.  compte  tenu  de  la  condition  at 
de  la  nettetd  de  I'exemplaire  f  ilm6.  et  en 
con'ormitd  avec  les  conditions  Ju  contrat  de 
filmage. 

Les  exemplaires  originaux  dont  la  couverture  en 
papier  est  imprim^e  sont  fiimds  en  commen9ant 
par  le  premier  pl&t  et  en  terminant  soit  par  la 
dernidre  page  qui  comporte  une  empreinte 
d'impression  cu  d'illustration,  soit  par  le  second 
plat,  salon  le  cas.  Tous  les  autres  exemplaires 
originaux  sont  film6s  en  conmenpant  par  la 
premiere  page  qui  comporte  une  empreinte 
d'impression  ou  d'illustraticn  et  en  terminant  par 
la  dernlAre  page  qui  comporte  une  telle 
empreinte. 

Un  des  symboles  suivants  apparaftra  sur  la 
dernidre  image  de  cheque  microfiche,  seicn  le 
cas:  ts  symbole  — ►  signifie  "A  SUIVRE".  le 
symbole  y  signifie  "FiN' . 

Les  cartes,  planches,  tableaux,  etc.,  peuvent  dtre 
film6s  A  des  taux  de  reduction  diffdrents. 
Lorsque  le  document  est  trop  grand  pour  Atre 
reproduit  en  un  seul  clichA.  11  est  filmA  A  partir 
de  I'angle  sup6rieur  gauche,  de  gauche  d  droite. 
et  de  haut  en  bas.  en  prenant  le  nombre 
d'iniae«8  n6cessaire.  Les  diagrammes  suivants 
illustrer.^  ia  mAthode. 


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The  Avatar  of  Peace 


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THE    AVATAR    OF    PEACE. 

**The  brazen  throat  of  War  bad  ceased  to  roar,** 
A-tid  the  armed  times  had  vanished  to  the  past. 
I'he  wolves  of  War  had  vanished,  looking  back 
Over  their  shoulders  with  fierce  hungry  eyes, 
War  with  his  high-waved  hand  had  bade  farewell 
And  in  departing  had  saluted  Peace . 
And  the  thin  heaven,  like  a  deep,  cold  sea 
Had  closed  above  him  where  had  sunk  his  steps. 
Then  mighty  Peace  succeeded  to  his  xilace, 
A  mighty  monarch,  thronged  with  ministrants. 
And  clothed  with  beauty  high  as  with  a  robe, 
Cinctured  with  power,  clothed  with  si)lendid  state, 
And  wearing  proudly  a  bright- jewelled  crown. 

Peace  made  her  reign,  eternal  and  uptook 
A  sceptre  sapient  which  must  dure  for  aye. 
She  entered  by  vast  doors,  whose  lintel  high 
Seemed  even  among  the  stars  of  radiant  light. 
Among  the  heights,  the  hills,  the  mountains  gray, 
Among  the  lofty  slopes,  'mong  valleys  green. 
Among  the  sea- like  plains  and  lands  far-spread, 
She  took  hei*  seat,  and  made  those  lands  her  own. 
A  mighty,  thrilling  presence,  that  of  peace — 
A  vast  pervading  presence,  full  of  power, 


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THE   AVATAR   OF   PEACK. 


A  warder  of  the  morning  and  the  nig-ht, 
A  close  companion  of  maYi'e  various  ways, 
A  ruler  of  tne  noon-^'de  and  the  day, 
And  tribute- bearer  of  the  circled  year. 

Eternal  were  those  hills,  and  so  was  Pfiajpe 

Eternal ;  they  Iiad  stood  for  ages  past. 

For  times  unknowable  to  human  thought. 

In  cycles  of  existence,  gray  and  green, 

Covered  with  woods,  with  myriad  pines  and  firs, 

With  armies  of  grave  trees  pointing  to  heaven, 

With  marshalled  hosts  of  woods,  with  verdant  bowers, 

With  rocky  sides,  with  landslips  here  and  there 

To  mark  some  slight  mutation — they  had  stood 

For  ages  and  for  ages — aye  and  aye. 


Among  the  valleys,  when  thou  lookest  up 

Thou  seest  perhaps  some  tent,  some  twilight  fire. 

Some  culinary  kettle  hung  from  poles, 

Horses  let  loose  to  graze,  men  smoking  pipes 

Filled  with  the  dried  tobacco  in  their  bowls, 

Seated  at  ease,  or  *mong  their  littered  goods 

Seeking  things  needful  for  their  food  and  rest. 

The  patient  steed  slow  paces,  jiausing  long     - 

Upon  one  tuft  of  verdure,  then  the  next. 

Then  striding  forth  a  little,  shuffles  on. 

And  in  the  distance  lie  the  azure  hills. 

Oh  !  somnolent  and  restful  are  these  scenes, 

Unlike  the  bloody  scenes  of  strife  and  war  ! 

Eternal  are  the  mountains  in  their  past. 

And  seems  the  sovran  Peace  entwined  with  them. 

Part  of  their  being  and  to  last  for  aye. 

The  casual  smoke  ascending  from  the  fire 

Seems  as  a  sort  (;f  incense  to  this  god. 

The  chirping  grasshopper  a  chorister 

Seems  in  the  sanctuary  of  this  god's  fane. 

The  low  of  beast,  the  whirrings  of  the  wind. 

The  beatings  of  some  vagabond  bird's  wing 

Seem  sistrums  for  this  worship.     And  the  air 

Which  spreads  about  our  heads,  our  very  feet, 

Which  lives  about  the  tent,  the  ox,  the  fire, 


THB  AVATAR  QF  PBACB. 

Which  huge  the  cedar,  which  wraps  round  the  oak, 
Which  washes  cattle's  walls,  and  craggy  rocks* 
Which  rides  upon  the  backs  of  highest  hills, 
Which  dwelletn  in  expanse  from  clouds  to  sods, 
Which  high  above  the  clouds  does  still  rejoice, 
This  air,  this  home  of  spirits,  seems  a  part 
Of  this  sweet  deity  whose  strains  I  sing. 

Then  had  the  very  clods,  when  Peace  ari'ived 
Become  enamoured  of  her  beauteous  reign. 
The  various  humblest  flowers  of  the  field 
Gave  forth  their  various  perfumes  in  her  praise. 
The  skies  above  seemed  smiling  on  the  earth 
In  sweet  approval  and  in  bonds  of  love. 
The  idle  lily  stood,  the  i*ed  rose  hung, 
The  tangled  grass  bent  with  the  rustling  wind, 
Great  gifts  of  silence  rested  on  the  earth, 
And  the  child's  prattle  was  of  War  no  more. 


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4      A   POETICAL   MEDITATION   ON   BRYAIW'fl    THANATOPSTS. 


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A  POETICAL   MEDITATION  ON  BRYANT'S 

THANATOPSIS. 

The  earth,  so  speaks  the  poet,  is  the  grave 
Of  all  those  myriad  legions  who  have  passed 
Through  life  into  the  portals  gray  of  death.    ' 
Earth  is  the  sepulchre,  the  beauteous  home 
Of  those  who  have  departed,  and  of  those 
Who  shall  depart  to  that  same  sepulchre. 
The  very  elements  that  deck  this  earth 
Compounded  are  from  our  frail  human  dust. 
And  so  he  sings,  if  one  conceive  a  harp 
To  attend  the  movements  of  so  grave  a  voice,  - 
That  when  we  face  those  portals  we  should  come 
Like  who  lie  down  to  dreams  and  courteous  sleep. 
And  wrap  around  them  gai'ments  of  repose. 

Pain  and  disease,  repulsiveness,  decay 

May  be  the  ushers  of  that  tinal  state, 

And  disappointment  with  its  potent  harms 

Or  want,  with  its  sharp  flail  may  be  the  guide 

That  leads  thee  to  these  chambers;  yet  I  deem 

The  author  of  our  text  does  well  to  dull 

And  shroud  these  matters  when  he  speaks  of  this; 

To  fix  his  eye  on  what  of  dignity 

Of  grandeur  and  of  beauty  ihe  theme  affords ; 

To  fortify  the  mind  against  mean  foes ; 

To  nurture  resignation ;  to  endow 

Death's  hideous  form  with  splendor  and  with  peace. 

So  travel,  he  says,  that  when  thou  needs  must  join 

The  caravan  that  seeks  the  climes  of  death 

Thou  go  not  like  the  galley-slave  much  scourged 

But  pass  within  rather  with  chastened  mirth. 


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A    POETICAL   MBDFTATION   ON    BUYAXT'h   THANATOPSIH. 

Happy  are  tliey  wlio  'mid  the  engroasinj^  cares, 

The  interests,  ambitions,  schemes,  of  life, 

Amid  the  noise,  the  turmoil,  the  distress 

Can  find  some  consolation  fn^m  a  ijage 

Such  as  this  poet's  before  us;  who  can  fiuil 

}3y  walking  to  the  fields,  tasting*  the  air 

A  source  of  benediction ;  who  can  leave 

The  pettiness  of  daily  life  behind, 

And  rise  to  loftier  and  more  wholesome  views ; 

Can  hold  communion  with  the  long-gone  past 

And  with  the  vague-shown  future  yet  to  come: 

Who  can  combine  those  epochs  into  one; 

AVho  can  abstnt  themselves  from  present  cares, 

And  look  on  earth  as  being  one  mighty  temple. 

The  h.iliS,  he  says,  the  rivers,  valleys,  brooks, 

The  aged  woodi^  the  sfj^hing  ocean's  waste, 

They  are  but  |)orti()ns  of  th«  tomb  of  man. 

The  sun,  the  stars,  the  *' infinite  host  of  heaven" 

**  Shine  on  the  abodes  of  death."     Yet  from  this  thought 

He  does  not  draw  depression  or  despair. 

It  yields  him  rather  fragrance,  comfort,  hope, 

Beatitude,  and  solace,  pleasure,  peace, 

Like  honey  yielded  from  the  gaping  jaws 

Where,  in  a  skeleton,  bees  built  their  nest. 

So  shalt  thou  rest,  he  savs;  thou  shalt  lie  down 

With  patriarchsof  the  infant  world,  with  kings, 

With  hoary  seers,  with  all  the  wise  and  good. 

And  when  the  time  shall  come,  thou  shalt  be  joined 

Year  after  year  by  a  long  cavalcade. 

What  if  thou  die  unheeded  ?    All  will  come — 

The  gay,  the  sad,  the  phantom-chasing  souls 

The  old,  the  young,  the  strong,  the  weak  will  come; 

Their  mirth  and  their  employments  they  shall  leave 

And  make  their  bed  beside  thee.     Thou  shalt  rest 

In  the  sweet  bosom  of  this  sombrous  tomb. 

The  flippant  and  the  fickle  may  laugh  on ; 

Their  chirrup  soon  is  ended;  enemies 

Can  ne  pursue  us  further ;  and  that  goal 

Is  as  an  infinite  ocean- main  of  peace. 

So  travel,  he  says,  that  when  thou  needs  must  join 

That  caravan,  thou  go  not  like  the  slave 


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Ql  IXOTK  H    lIAKANCil  K   ON   THK   (lOLDKN    A({E. 


But  rather  joyfully  and  full  of  faith 

Approach  thy  Ki'a-ve  like  one  lying  down  to  sleep. 


QUIXOTE'5  HARANGUE  ON  THE  QOLDEN 

AQE. 


FROM  CERVANTES. 

0  Sancho,  since  the  sun  declines, 
And  tumbles  in  yon  purple  west, 
We  shall  ne  village  seek  to-night; 
The  open  skies  have  no  affright; 
Me  likes  the  canopy  of  heaven, 
To  watch  the  wain-stars  seven. 


Our  hopes  now  sinking  with  the  sun 
How  opportune  yon  goat-herds*  tents  ! 
I  do  rejoice;  cease  thou  to  grieve. 
How  graciously  they  us  receive  ! 
We  with  these  herdsmen  spend  the  night. 
With  fame  I  them  requite. 

Lo  yonder  kettle  whei^e  the  smoke 
Ascends  towards  the  cerulean  sky. 
We  eat;  the  wine-horn  circles  round; 
From  sheep-skins  spread  upon  the  gi-ound 
Our  hunger  is  at  length  appeased, 
And  acorns  fiiJsh  oft'  the  feast. 


quixotk's  har  \nqt;e  on  the  (joldkn  age. 


Sit,  Sancho,  by  your  lord*o  right  hand, 

These  herdsmen  good  shall  see  that  squires 

Of  errant  knights  are  not  despised. 

Ye  herdsmen  good  be  not  surprised. 

Sancho,  the  second  skin  of  wine 

Thou  watchest  with  those  eyes  of  thine. 

Good  herdsmen,  the  umbrageous  oak. 
King  of  the  forested  campaign, 
We  thank  for  these  delicious  seeds. 
This  acorn  feast  within  me  breeds 
For  high  discourse  a  pregnant  theme. 
Of  lofty  thoughts  a  fruitful  stream. 

Know  ye,  O  simple  goat-hei^d  souls, 
A  time  was,  called  the  Golden  Age, 
In  fair  days  of  remotest  Eld. 
Man's  labour  then  was  uncompelled. 
Happy  those  days,  happy  thop3  times, 
Unvexed  by  any  sordid  crimes. 

We  read  in  authors  most  antique 
Ilovr  men  lived  then  in  habits  meek 
And  simple  j  even  the  homely  plough 
Tore  not  our  mother's  breast  as  now 
Who  gave  her  boons  without  request 
To  those  who  then  her  soil  posdessed. 

Happy  those  days,  happy  those  times. 
The  mind,  my  friends,  looks  oft  behind. 
We  wander  through  those  courts  of  time : 
Their  influence,  like  a  pleasant  chime, 
Transports  us ;  eat  your  humble  cheese ; 
We  sit  here,  'neath  these  shades,  in^ease. 

Happy  those  days,  happy  those  times, 
Happy  those  golden  days  now  gone. 
What  can  we  do  but  sit  and  grieve 
As  banished  souls  without  reprieve  ? 
Yet,  herdsmen,  do  not  grieve  too  much ; 
Let  sad  regret  your  minds  but  touch. 


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Qt^JXOTJi's   HARANfllllil   ON   THE   GOI.DKIf    AfiE. 


Happy  those  g-olden  days,  those  times 
A  glimiwe,  as  from  some  poet's  page 
Or  painter's  canvas,  tills  my  mind  : 
I  see  the  rough  posts,  tendril- twined, 
The  rough  i»oofs  o^er-laid  with  bark 
Beneath  some  forest-shadow  dai-lw 


I  see  the  youths,  the  maidens  gay 

Clad  only  with  a  dress  of  leaves 

All  goods  W3re  common  ;  travellers  fared 

Unarmed  and  careless  ;  no  man  dared. 

Or  wished  to  injure  or  defraud. 

I.one  virgins  roamed  the  country  broad. 

Contrast  this  with  the  modelTi  world  ; 
Hov/  greed  and  evil  creep  apace ! 
The  weak  are  robbed,  the  lawless  seek 
To  ruin  ;  where  are  found  the  meek  ? 
The  traveller  wanders  on  his  way 
Watchful  of  harm  by  night  and  day. 

I  see  some  lonely  forest-sward, 

Bathed  with  the  shades  of  sombrous  ti*ees. 

The  children  of  this  solitude 

By  low-roofed  habitations  rude 

Or  in  the  open  glades  at  ease 

Stand  grouped  in  attitudes  of  peace. 

Hapfiy  those  golden  days  now  gone  ; 

That  child-lihe  innocence  is  fled.  

0,  Sancho  Panzaf  we  ir^ust  weep — 
Your  eye-lids  heavy  are  with  sleep — 
Must  weep  that  those  days  ne*er  return. 
However  our  longing  hearts  may  burn. 


It  seems  as  if  some  wizard*s  wand 
Had  driven  away  those  scenes  of  blit^s- 
Had  left  behind  but  mire  and  clay. 
We  tind  naughi  like  it  here  to-day 
Ai'ound  this  savoury  pot,  these  skins 
We  wetp.    Day  ceases.    Night  begins. 


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Happy  those  golden  days  now  gone. 
As  day  deceases,  night  descends. 
The  glorious  stF.rs  come  one  by  one. 
The  moon  informs  that  day  is  done. 
The  peaceful  ox  lies  down  to  rest 
'Neath  the  high  mansions  of  the  blest. 


QONDEL. 

FOUNDED   ON    POE's   '■  CITY   IN   THE   SEA." 

**  Whither,  wide-winged  albatross, 
Sailing  the  dark  seas  across,  ^^ 

Dost  thou  cleave  thy  airy  patlU  ■ 
"Perhaps  I  fly,  man,  who  can  tell  i 
To  the  city  of  Gondel."* 


Deep  in  a  tract  most  desolate. 
On  ocean's  bosom  most  ingrate, 

Stands  the  tremendous  tower  ot  gray, 
Hewn  four-square  like  a  campanue, 
A  viveai  tower  on  a  low  flat  isle. 

Up  soars  this  tower  it  t^  cms  for  miles. 
Around  it  rise  the  other  piles 

Of  desolation  and  decay. 
The  spacioivs  isle  from  bound  to  bound 
Seems  all  one  city,  towered  around. 


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aONDBL. 

Never  the  sun  with  even  a  glint 
Gives  of  his  light  a  slightest  hint 
To  this  poor  island  of  the  waste. 
The  sea  is  always  hushed  around. 
The  winds  moan  with  a  muffled  sound. 

Always  the  ocean  belt  is  calm. 
The  winds  bring  on  their  wings  no  balm. 
•  No  smile  bedecks  those  waters  drear. 
Deep  in  the  ocean's  heart  do  dwell 
Those  sad  walls  of  the  dread  Gondel. 

0  city  of  abiding  death, 

About  whose  domes  there  comes  no  breath 

Of  life,  no  ministry  of  light. 
About  whose  bournes  there  wash  but  seas 
Of  quietude  though  not  of  peace ! 

The  mariner  through  weary ^^leagues 
Misses  the  object  which  he  seeks. 

He  wallows  through  the  troughs  and  foams. 
He  flounders  through  the  East  and  West, 
Nor  finds  this  island  so  unblest. 

Deeply  mysterious  is  the  place 
As  if  its  form  it  would  erase. 

Perhaps  the  isle  retreats  or  sinks 
Whenever  an  approaching  bark 
Would  fain  the. city's  gray  towers  mark. 


They  wander  thither  through  the  waste. 
But  miss  the  island  in  their  haste. 
-  They  let  the  gray  towers  pass  astern. 
0  island  of  the  distant  sea 
The  steersman  cannot  come  to  thee ! 


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THE  GARDEN. 

Within  a  venerable  wall 

There  stood  a  garden,  whose  high  trees 

Rose  here  and  there  j  iTBweet  expanse, 

In  whose  retreats  a  nymph  might  dance; 

Luxurious  acres  full  of  Jtiowers ; 

Mazes  and  arbours,  not  too  trim, 

And  fountains  plashing  o*er  their  brim. 

There  st<)od  the  bust  of  antique  Pan 
With  other  sculpt  ares  *mong  the  flowers. 
The  gi'ound  was  high ;  thou  lookedst  out 
On  hills  and  mountains  i*ound  about ; 
And  stately  seats  stood  in  the  shade, 
By  level  walks  near  alleys  gfreen. 
Nought  in  this  pleasaunce  was  there  mean. 

From  the  hill  slopes  the  wall  upclomb; 
Thou  sawest  through  breaks  a  city's  towers. 
The  wall  stopped  not  the  butterfly. 
Who  holds  the  freedom  of  the  sky ; 
And  twittering  birds  stood  in  the  trees 
Fi-om  high  looked  down  upon  the  sods 
Cybele,  mother  of  the  gods. 

Mnch  marble  was  there  round  the  founts. 

And  floors  mosaic  near  the  seats. 

The  shapely  trees  stood  round  in  crowds, 

And  high  above  did  roam  the  clouds 

Of  a  serene  and  happy  sky. 

The  aged  tree-'tops  lived  among 

Those  heavens  which  seemed  so  fair  and  young. 


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THE   (UUDKX. 

Thou  eiiteredst  by  the  postern  gate, 
Or  by  the  mansion-house  near  by. 
Perhaps  some  wine  might  wait  for  thee 
Beneath  the  most  ancestral  tree, 
Or  grapi'S  grew  in  the  genial  air, 
Or  incense^from  some  brazier  rose. 
Or  sprinkled  pei'fumes  met  the  nose. 

Textures  of  finest  robes  were  there. 

The  sloven  passed. not  through  those" pirates. 

The  bee  flew  with  hie  ** honeyed  thigh"   ' 

Above,  athwart,  the  passer-by. 

One  found  the  alcoves  'neath  the  trees,       — 

One  sauntered  down  the  alleys  green 

Or  paused  in  glades  that  came  between. 

Time  journeyed  idly  in  that  place. 

The  hours  slipped  by  with  silk-shod  feet. 

Companions  in  the  cool  recess 

Or  round  the  fountain  lounged,  I  guess. 

The  story-teller  smilingly 

Lingered  uptm  his  courteous  theme, 

And  watched  the  dial  in  the  gleam. 

Or  the  grave  reader,  lingering  long 
Held  in  his  lap  some  author's  Avit, 
And  pondered  musingly  the  leaves 
Bound  in  some  book,  like  harvest  sheaves, 
And  slowly  jmssed  from  sheaf  to  sheaf, 
He  builded  of  his  thoughts,  I  guess, 
Some  castlo-tower  of  idleness. 

Brightly  the  sun  shone  on  his  youth. 
He  watched  the  spaces  of  tfee  sky. 
He  and  his  friends  rose  and  forsook 
This  precinct ;  and  if  thou  didst  look 
Thou  sawest  their  robes  float  in  the  wind. 
Loud  laughter  musically  died 
To  stillness  as  along  they  hied. 


Oh  in  thi>8e  golden  hours  of  ease 
How  in  that  tine- veined  mai'ble  seat 


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AUTUMN. 

The  leaves  gave  shadow  of  then*  form. 
In  that  blue  sky  there  was  no  storm. 
The  friends  perhaps  retraced  their  steps 
To  where  the  curious  fountains  spurt, 
And  with  the,,air  in  bead-drops  flirt. 

Also  there  fell  in  deep  festoons 
The  long  gay  arms  of  creeping  plants ; 
And  from  the  wall  a  distant  sea 
Gleamed  out  afar  it  seems  to  me, 
With  undulating  lands  between ; 
And  from  the  wall  a  slow  descent 
Led  to  the  highway  where  all  went. 


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AUTUMN. 

0  Autumn  sere,  whose  string  the  wild  wind  whisketh 
With  sombre  notes  like  harp  iEolian, 
The  harpings  of  whose  string  are  sadder  than 
Summer's  loud  song;  whose  visitings  the  wind 
Toucheth  with  tremulations  as  it  flies. 
Or  as  it  lurks,  or  the  sad  string  o'er-frisketh  ! 
Thou  Autumn  comest  with  thy  gorgeous  ti'ain ;         • 
Thy  sheaves,  thy  woods,  thy  garnished  plains  arise. 
Thy  splendid  azure  beameth  from  thy  skies. 
To  join  thy  song  the  bird  his  fleet  w^ng  risketh. 
With  glory  thou  adorn' st  the  wide  champaign. 
Bound  in  vermilion  comes  thy  vesture- chain. 


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THli   BBAC'H  AT   LYNN. 


THE  BEACH  AT  LYNN. 

Forever  raging,  ceasing  ne, 
Drift  on  the  billows  of  the  sea, 

Thf  .""^  *^^  ^^""^^  towards  far  Nahant 
1  he  raving  waters  rage  and  pant, 
Poammg  ,n  ranks  of  three  and  four 
Along  this  fair  expanse  of  shore. 
Bringing  to  thee  thy  waves,  0  Lynn, 

i   A       .^  ^?'^®  wander  on  the  deep. 

And  on  the  far  horizon  creep. 

Ihe  light-house  rock,  ^  citadel, 
And  warder  of  the  bay  may  dwell 
Serenely  while  the  suJ.  shiLs  on? 
And  frown  the  ocean's  depths  upon . 
Like  rocks  but  mightier  did  the  sage 
Ulysses,  m  the  storied  page  ^ 

Pass,  when  around  his  dark-hulled  craft 
The  holy  ocean's  wavelets  laughed- 
When  he  to  Circe's  isle  did  ,mm,    ' 
And  wandered  by  the  Sirens'  home. 


8T.    HELBN'S    island,    MONTREAL. 


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5T.    HELEN'S  ISLAND.  MONTREAL. 

Ah,  bring  me  to  those  sun-lit  W9.ves 
Where  Death*s  still  river  flows  not  by, 

But  where  the  smiling  sun- god  paves 
The  waters  like  his  radiant  sky. 

Trifling  may  seem  the  frail  canoe. 
And  low  the  slender  islets  green, 

And  wide  the  foaming  waters  blue 
May  glide  their  verdant  banks  between. 

For  aye  they  flow,"  forever  inin. 

Forever  thus  fall  on  the  ear ; 
For  aye  the  foam- flakes  greet  the  sun, 

In  seasons  of  the  green  or  sere. 

When  June  bedecks  yon  elmy  bournes 
Then  too  the  river  fairest  flows ; 

Then  as  it  breaks,  the  water  mourns, 
And  chimingly  along  it  goes. 


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.XOVA    SCOT  JAN    WOODS. 

NOVA  5C0  riAN  WOODS. 

To-day  mild  summer's  mildest  sun 

Smiles  m  the  upper  air; 
And  in  the  woods  the  sounds  of  leaves 

Scarce  die  on  breezes  dare; 
And  through  the  woods  which  skirt  its  track 

Clangrs  on  the  railway-car; 

,XT    .1®  ¥^'  *^'^^"  ***«  partridge  hen 
Neath  sky- bournes  blue  and  fair. 

The  feathered  fowls  rejoice  the  sky 

Whose,  winds  their  carols  bear 
ihe  alder  mazes  round  the  road 

In  darkr  green  vistas  g-lare. 
The  seed-fluff  from  the  high-stalked  stem 

The  wandering  breezes  tear, 
Wandering  on  ^-assy  carpeting 

'Neath  sky- lands  blue  and  fSr 


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MOONRI5E  AT  HALIFAX. 

Thou  hast  remembered,  Luna,  to  aimear 

Named  of  MacNab,  aor  hast  forgot  tbv  ta.-*- 
Of  warfare   coloured  with  a  lurid  red  ^ 

Dipped  in  IZ  ZS^Tgm^'^lfJ'Z'irT''''^' 

Of  unseen  wavelets  murmur  round  ou  •  fee^ 
The  wharfman  leaves  his  lahnn..  o«^      !    ' 
To  land  the  day-lon/tiXr  ofTh^  deep".''*"'""^ 


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